Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1887-03-04

sn,cv Debate In al,e Senate.

Spicy Debate Iii ane senate.
During the consideration OF the report OF
the conference committee on the sundry
civil appropriation bill in the Senate yester-
dsv MIR. Hoar. Of Massachusetts,, said
g! resd the other day in the newspapers
q letter from a gentleman who was SAID 10
he Spesker of the House OF Representatives,.
II will not undertake now to say Whether
he holds that Office or not.) 1t was ADDRESS
ed to n gentleman who was SAID to hold tne
office of chairman of the committee Oh ap
preparations in the House OF hepfesenta'
lives. and to two other gentlemen OF "ioe
rational reputation, holding high positions IN
the councils of the democratic party. These
three gentlemen wrote to the Speaker and
complained that they had not been recog'
nized by him for the purpose OF moving
measure for the revision of the tariH-a
measure which the American people desire,
and which mai ority of the members OF that
body also desire. And the Speaker replied,
stating as his reason for refusing TO recog-
niza. on the floor of the body over which ne
presided. q gentleman TO make that motlon'
that he did not approve ofthe measure which
that gentleman proposed to move, ana that
therefore he could not recognize him Tor
that purpose. But he said that if these gen
tlemen would carry their proposed revision
of the tariff into democratic caucus, ana
would submit to what should turn out TO be
the yiews of that caucus on the SUBJECT.
whether they were the views OF the House OF
Representatives or not, he then, in his dig
cretion. would permit that motion TO be
made. Now say that up to any time Within
the last twenty years such an attempted
usurpation OF power would have created a
storm in this country that would have either
driven the usuper out of his seat or would
have occasioned revolution in the govern
ment itself.
"Mr President, there has not come before
the American people snce the end OF the
war question for determination that In:
wolves such grave constitutional results ana
on which their interests so much depend as
the question whether this usurpation OF
power shall be permitted to go on. It's new;
| it is unheard of until lately. Henry Clay
was supposed to have pretty strong WILL
Mr.. Clay would no more have dared TO as
sert such an authority when he was SPEAK
er of the House of Representatives than he
would have ventured to cross the Niagara
river twenty rods above the falls"
Mr.. Saulsbury.-"I rise to question OF
order. Is it in order for member OF the
Senate to arraign the House OF Representa-
tiyes or any member of the House OF KEEP
resentatives in o political speech IN the
| Senate ?n
MIR. Hoar. ~ have kept within the Jules
pretty carefully"
The Presiding Officer, (AIr. Ingalls, 1.-THE
| Chair understands that the language of the
Senator from Massachusetts has been strict
" within the rules prescribed by this body. 7"
MIR. Hoar.-"Mr. Blaine, under whom
many of us served in another place, is gen.
erallv supposed to have pretty strong will
and a pretty strong desire to have accom-
plshed in the administration of the country
the things which he thinks ought to be done
I served in the House of Representatives
with that accomplished gentlemen for eight
years. for six of which he was Speaker and
the humblest democrat when we had ms
iority of three. fourths or four.ffths in that
body) was permitted to make his motion to
suspend the rules every Monday and every
day within the last six days ofadjournment
They used to put US on the record with al
sorts of contrivances and in all manner o.
WAYS by calling the yeas and nays on ques
tons which they thought republicans would
not like to commit themselves on.
"Mr. President, this is q question which
poes clear down to the fundamental rocks
or which our constitutional structure
is erected. I would rather have the
Emperor of Russia or King Bomba to rule
over me than to have, under pretense O.
constitutional form, the right denied to my
representatives to utter the will OF the
American people when constitutionally ex
pressed by the voice of the majority in each
branch.
"The majority of the Senate have mol
thought it desirable, i'll the state OF pubic
feeling In the condition Of the public
BUSINESS, in the prevailing sentiment OF the
American people, to insist upon an extra
session of Congress; but 1 wish, for one, tc
give notice that, in my Judgment, this is
the last time that that usurpation Will be
submitted to-"
Mr.. Beck.-"I was called out Of the cham
her for while end was only in time to heal
what seems to me most remarkable TRADE
against the Speaker of the House of Repre-
sentatives. That gentleman needs no de-
tense at nv hands, and had supposed that
in the Senate of the United States, under
the rules and prophecies of the occasion
comment upon the action oil the speaker
would not be INDUCED in. | have only This
to say, that there is no man In Massachu.
sets, or outside of Massachusetts, who will
attack either the integrity, the honesty OF
the ability OF the Speaker of the present
House of Representatives with impunity in
his presence. 1t would be more manly for
some gentleman in that house to rise there
and say whatever it might be thought
4 proper to say in regard to bis action as
Speaker than for member of this house.
where he cannot be heard and where he has
no right to speak, to attack him."
Mr.. Hoar.-"I ask the Senator from Ken
lucky whether he denies single assertion
of fact that I have made; whether he does
not agree with me in my opinion of this
matter; and whether he does not think that
it is an invasion of the constitutional power
of the Senate and House."
Mr.. Beck.-"I have no right 10 know on
this floor whether the statements made by
the Senator from Massachusetts are true or
not. If they are true, and if they are inva-
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